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The Web Publishing and Design with HTML 4.01 and XHTML series teaches you how to make Web sites using HTML 4.01, XHTML, and cascading style sheets. It also provides tips and guidelines to help you design and create effective Web sites, as well as organize their content.

Getting Organized
Time: 3.0 hour(s)
Summary:
After taking this course, you will understand the fundamentals of designing and organizing a Web site. You will also know how to create a site that meets accessibility requirements.
Objectives:
* Identify techniques to design and organize effective Web sites.
* Describe how to write for online publication.
* Create an accessible Web site.
Topics:
* The Web
* Web browsers and Web servers
* Starting your Web site
* Planning your Web site
* Organizing your Web site
* Standards compliance
* Writing for online publication
* Page layout and design
* Using links
* Using images
* Useful hints
* Designing for the real world
* Deciding between HTML 4.01 or XHTML
* Creating accessible sites

Basics of HTML and XHTML
Time: 2.0 hour(s)
Summary:
After taking this course, you will have a basic knowledge of HTML 4.01 and XHTML. You will also understand how to apply these technologies to build basic Web pages.
Objectives:
* Explain the structure of a simple HTML page.
* Describe the advantages and flexibility cascading style sheets allow.
* Apply HTML tags for overall page structure.
* Build ordered and unordered lists in a simple HTML page.
* Build HTML pages that have the ability to link back and forth.
Topics:
* What HTML is - and what it is not
* The current standard: XHTML 1.0
* Using Cascading Style Sheets
* Structuring your HTML
* Lists, lists, and more lists
* Creating links
* Relative and absolute links
* Links to other documents on the Web
* Parts of URLs
* Kinds of URLs

HTML, XHTML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Time: 4.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course explains how to use HTML 4.01 elements and cascading style sheets to format text on Web pages, add images and color, and create tables for data.
Objectives:
* Format Web page text with physical and logical style tags.
* Insert special characters into Web pages.
* Change the size, style, and face of Web page text.
* Insert images and use color on Web pages.
* Align images and text.
* Create Web page tables.
Topics:
* Formatting character-level elements
* Advanced HTML elements
* Special characters
* Formatting text
* Types of images used on the Web
* Inline images
* Images, text, and links
* Using color in HTML
* More about images
* Creating tables
* Sizing tables, borders, and cells
* Formatting table cells
* Spanning multiple rows or columns
* Advanced table enhancements

Advanced Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Forms, and DHTML
Time: 3.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course provides techniques and tools to effectively employ advanced cascading style sheets and forms on your Web site. It also introduces DHTML.
Objectives:
* Use cascading style sheets.
* Use selectors and units of measure.
* Position elements with CSS.
* Modify elements and format columns with CSS.
* Create forms and form controls.
* Use Dynamic HTML.
Topics:
* Using cascading style sheets
* Selectors and units of measure
* Box properties
* Positioning elements with CSS
* Modifying elements an formatting columns with CSS
* Basic forms
* The <form> tag
* Creating form controls
* Other form controls
* Cascading style sheets and forms
* Dynamic HTML
* Document Object Model
* Cross-browser DHTML techniques
* Grouping elements with <div>

Adding Interactivity and Multimedia with HTML and XHTML
Time: 3.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course explains how to use imagemaps, sound, video, and JavaScript to add features to Web pages.
Objectives:
* Add imagemaps to your Web graphics.
* Apply graphic effects to your images.
* Include sound and video on your Web pages.
* Add interactivity using JavaScript.
* Create Web sites that use multiple frames.
Topics:
* Imagemaps
* Creating imagemaps
* Creating transparent GIF files
* Presenting sound and video
* Embedding sound and video
* Sound and video file types
* Basic JavaScript
* Uses for JavaScript
* Working with frames
* Linked windows and floating frames